The foaf:workplaceHomepage of a foaf:Person is a
foaf:Document that is the foaf:homepage of a
foaf:Organization that they work for.
By directly relating people to the homepages of their workplace, we have a simple convention that takes advantage of a set of widely known identifiers, while taking care not to confuse the things those identifiers identify (ie. organizational homepages) with the actual organizations those homepages describe.
For example, Dan Brickley works at W3C. Dan is a foaf:Person with a
foaf:homepage of http://danbri.org/; W3C is a
foaf:Organization with a foaf:homepage of http://www.w3.org/. This
allows us to say that Dan has a foaf:workplaceHomepage of http://www.w3.org/.
<foaf:Person> <foaf:name>Dan Brickley</foaf:name> <foaf:workplaceHomepage rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/"/> </foaf:Person>
Note that several other FOAF properties work this way;
foaf:schoolHomepage is the most similar. In general, FOAF often indirectly
identifies things via Web page identifiers where possible, since these identifiers are widely
used and known. FOAF does not currently have a term for the name of the relation (eg.
"workplace") that holds
between a foaf:Person and an foaf:Organization that they work for.